[JDEV] Denial of Service, Spam and Jabber
Daniel Arbuckle
djarb at wvc-omak.ctc.edu
Wed May 12 21:56:58 CDT 1999
OK, so before 1.0 the server will take care of such things. That's what I
needed to know. Thanks.
Daniel
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Jeremie wrote:
> > How does jabber deal with unwanted messages, particularly massively
> > repeated ones?
> >
> > Does the server have a squelch list?
>
> At the moment there is nothing in the server to stop this, but it is
> definately an issue that will be addressed as Jabber usage ramps up.
>
> There will most likely be two areas... performance/usage limits to limit
> the damage of DOS attacks, and security/preference settings to reduce
> unwanted messages. These will happen before "1.0", but probably not for
> the next version or two.
>
> Jer
>
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